India aims to engage with partner nations and multi-national maritime constructs to develop “comprehensive maritime domain awareness and share information on vessels of interest with all stakeholders,” Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru said on September 14. He said that since the establishment of the Information Fusion Centre - Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR), located in Gurugram, the centre had emerged as a prominent hub of maritime security information in the region in a short span of time.
Speaking at the Maritime Information Sharing Workshop being organised by the Navy, he said, “The aim of this workshop is to afford cohesive and collective responses to the many maritime security challenges that the Indian Ocean Region faces and develop a robust functional level understanding amongst participants.”
The workshop would also take you through a tabletop maritime security exercise where all the participants would be able to work together as a team to prepare plans in response to the various maritime contingencies, Vice Admiral Mahindru said.
